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everywhere

adverbnouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈɛv.ɹi.(h)weə(ɹ)//
  • United States//ˈɛv.ɹi.(h)wɛɹ//

In or to all locations under discussion.

adverb

  1. 1

    In or to all locations under discussion.

    He delivers the mail everywhere on this street.

    We went everywhere at the school - we talked to all the teachers in their classrooms.

    Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins. For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you.

  2. 2

    In or to a few or more locations.

    We went to Europe last year and went everywhere: Berlin, Paris, London, and Madrid.

    When I shop for shoes, I like to look everywhere.

    I've looked everywhere in the house and still can't find my glasses.

    Flutters of excitement were everywhere apparent.

Etymology

From Middle English eauerihwer, from Old English æfre + gehwær. By surface analysis, every + where.

noun

  1. 1

    All places or locations.

    I went out to get some groceries, but everywhere was closed.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).